[R] Question about R software and output

[Ben Bolker]

    It's conceivable that functions in a contributed package would 
communicate/transmit or receive data from a remote server, but base R 
does nothing like that (unless you explicitly ask it to).

   cheers
    Ben Bolker

On 2023-10-02 3:48 a.m., Ferguson Charity (CEMINFERGUSON) wrote:
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> My understanding is that the R software is downloaded from a CRAN network and data is imported into it using Microsoft Excel for example. Could I please just double check whether any data or results from the output is held on external servers or is it just held on local files on the computer?
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> Many thanks,
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> Charity
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